P3D Re: Stereo slides are easier than some people think!

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>Take your first roll on a sunny day
>with a film rated ISO 100 and the camera set permanently at f11,
>1/100 and focused at 15 feet (that's a little bit better than
>infinity!).  Send your film to Kodak to mount.  View the slides
>with a $3.25 viewer from Reel 3-D.  You will be happy!!!


Sunny day, ISO 100, 1/100th shutter and *f11*?  Won't this result in
every slide being a full stop overexposed?  Or more, if your 1950's
camera's shutter is a tad slow, as many Kodak Stereo shutters in
particular tend to be these days?  Why have you departed from the
oft-quoted Sunny-16 rule, which would dictate f16 in this circumstance?

Print film will easily tolerate one stop of overexposure, but slide film
fares somewhat better with underexposure (increased density), though
there's not really a lot of latitude either way.  Print films are better
for the beginning photographer, as long as the error is towards
overexposure; an acceptable print can be gotten from as much as *four
stops* overexposure with your average consumer print film.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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